Defense attorney Julie Clark admitted Hussain beat his wife — but argued that he is guilty of only manslaughter because he didn’t intend to kill her. In Pakistan, Clark said, beating one’s wife is customary.

Any murder can be rationalized. "When I got home from work, supper wasn't on the table. I had to kill my wife. I had no choice."

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Sure.
I mean looking at the historical context, that's also the first thing that comes to my mind also.
Just as well that I have recourse to well researched atheist web sites to help me understand these topics.

Just as well that I have recourse to well researched atheist web sites to help me understand these topics.

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I didn't get that story from an "atheist website". I got it from one of my teachers who used to work in a prison. He said that almost every prisoner had two characteristics:
1. They were born losers - the type who would leave their wallet at a crime scene.
2. They were all innocent - i.e. they had "no choice" but to do what they did.

Sure.
I mean looking at the historical context, that's also the first thing that comes to my mind also.
Just as well that I have recourse to well researched atheist web sites to help me understand these topics.

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You need not look at historical records very far back, just recent news gives plenty of case history.

I didn't get that story from an "atheist website". I got it from one of my teachers who used to work in a prison. He said that almost every prisoner had two characteristics:
1. They were born losers - the type who would leave their wallet at a crime scene.
2. They were all innocent - i.e. they had "no choice" but to do what they did.

If you want to cite them as exclusive tools to discerning social norms from more than 2500 years ago, sure.

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Yes, that's why oral news from those days is called myth. And the hieroglyphs on stone slabs were not very specific;

The Sumerian archaic (pre-cuneiform) writing and the Egyptian hieroglyphs are generally considered the earliest true writing systems, both emerging out of their ancestral proto-literate symbol systems from 3400–3100 BC, with earliest coherent texts from about 2600 BC.

Archeologists, Anthropologists and in fact anyone remotely related to the professional field of history, begs to differ.

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No they don't. There are still many hieroglyphs which have not been translated. No alphabet.

Moreover this was only meant for the "initiated". No one else could read at all. That's why public announcements were made by oral declaration. Remember the town crier as recent as 18th century.

The town crier can also be used to make public announcements in the streets. Criers often dress elaborately, by a tradition dating to the 18th century, in a red and gold coat, white breeches, black boots and a tricorne hat.

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The printing press was not invented in Europe until the 1439

The printing press spread within several decades to over two hundred cities in a dozen European countries.[5] By 1500, printing presses in operation throughout Western Europe had already produced more than twenty million volumes.[5] In the 16th century, with presses spreading further afield, their output rose tenfold to an estimated 150 to 200 million copies.[5] The operation of a press became synonymous with the enterprise of printing, and lent its name to a new medium of expression and communication, "the press".

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And most of those millions of volumes were bibles. The church was the only commercial enterprise rich enough to afford the necessary supplies. And as far as news is concerned the church is a notoriously unreliable source.....

While I’m not certain as to the precise nature of your question, the quote is in specific reference to the Midianite women and children who were taken captive after Israel defeated them in battle. The rationale for killing the male children is so that they don’t grow up seeking revenge. The rationale for the killing of the women was that they were the ones who had gotten Israel into the whole mess (read several verses previous):

“So you have spared all the women!” he exclaimed. "Why, they are the very ones who on Balaam’s advice prompted the unfaithfulness of the Israelites toward the Lord in the Peor affair, which began the slaughter of the Lord’s community."
Num 31: 15-16